17 April 2020 — Peoples Dispatch

Vijay Prashad, Director, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, talks about China’s response to the COVID-19 crisis, especially in the light of the accusations that are being leveled against the country. He talks about how the novel coronavirus was identified, the steps taken by the Chinese authorities and the active participation of the community in combating the disease.

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About Vijay Prashad

Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian, editor and journalist. He is a writing fellow and chief correspondent at Globetrotter, a project of the Independent Media Institute. He is the chief editor of LeftWord Books and the director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. He has written more than twenty books, including The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World (The New Press, 2007), The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South (Verso, 2013), The Death of the Nation and the Future of the Arab Revolution (University of California Press, 2016) and Red Star Over the Third World (LeftWord, 2017). He writes regularly for Frontline, the Hindu, Newsclick, AlterNet and BirGün.